It's that time again! The latest installment of the Seibertron.com Twincast/Podcast is now available for your listening pleasure. This week the podcast crew discusses the Dark of the Moon Toys being released, new DOTM Galleries, the full BotCon guest list, Bay and Spielberg get inducted into TF Hall of Fame, Headmasters and Beast Wars DVDs, new TF:Prime episodes, our latest bragging rights, and we even throw in a couple of shout outs for good measure!

I ususally only listen to the parts where you guys talk about the toys. Well, when you guys answered NO to getting Leader Bumblebee, well, lets just say I was drinking hot chocolate...ouch.

But I do agree about it. Ironhide over Bee any day.

By "Kim Yura" & "Zimmo81"

Henry921 wrote:You can always be counted on to listen to reason, Pryme.

Dead Metal wrote:Have you ever, and i mean ever seen/read/heard something that is completely original and does not copy/homage/pay tribute to something else? Here's a hint: Nope. You never have and you never will.

RiD Hot Shot and RiD Ironhide. Both of which were some of the best voices of that show.

Pearl Harbor was intense enough. Its attack scenes were uber awesome.

I wrote this before about Bay and Spielberg getting inot the Hall of Fame so soon:

Sabrblade wrote:While I do admit that these two have indeed played an important role in TF history, I would think inducting these two so soon seems kinda hasty. I mean, I'd think that someone like Simon Furman (who's worked on TF material for nearly all 26+ years) or Frank Welker (who's voiced a large chunk of iconic G1 characters plus many recent ones) would have gotten in before these two. It's like, these are getting in so quickly for their recent efforts before some of those who have been with the franchise for a lot longer.

I'm not saying that these two shouldn't get in. Just that they should... wait their turn.

The following, IMHO, should be inducted before Bay/Spielberg (in no particular order, though):

Bob Forward & Larry DiTillio - head writers of Beast Wars, which shaped all future fiction to come after it

David Kaye - voiced more Megatrons than anyone else, as well as voicing an Optimus Prime (and a Grimlock), and more

Flint Dille - one of the story editors for the G1 cartoon

Susan Blu - voiced G1 Arcee and a few other G1 females, but more importantly, voice director for Beast Wars, Beast Machines, and Animated

Nelson Shin - producer of the G1 cartoon and director of the G1 movie

Wally Burr - voice director for the G1 cartoon

Stan Bush - performer of iconic Transformers songs such as "The Touch"

Scott McNeil - voiced numerous character roles in all of the Beast Era and all of the Unicron Trilogy

Shōhei Kohara & Floro Dery - designed the original animation models of the many G1 characters (yes, I know about the infamy surrounding Dery's history in the fandom, but he still played an important role in the franchise's origin -- the dude designed Unicron and the Matrix!)

Margaret Loesch - formers president and CEO of Marvel Productions during the time of the G1 cartoon, in which she served as a producer of it, and is currently the head of the Hub television network.

"Wazpinator want glory, Wazpinator want power! And what does Wazpinator get?! Wazpinator never gets what Wazpinator wants!" - give this guy the win! He suffered for our enjoyment.

Hey, if Waspy wins, that'd also prove the voting isn't rigged.

This new G1 box set is just like the Matrix set minus all that set's exclusive stuff. Imagine taking the DVDs from the season 1 set, both the season 2 sets, and the seasons 3 & 4 set; put those 13 discs together and you got this set. The Matrix set has three more discs of bonus content that this set does not have. It's basically Shout! Factory trying one more time to cash in on its G1 DVDs.

Hey, don't forget, the new complete series set of Beast Wars includes "Dawn of Future's Past", which not everyone has.

Episodes 12-14 of Prime were top quality episodes. 15, however, was just... okayish. The Starscream moments of "Shadowzone" were great, but the rest of it was... average.

The zombie hand was confusing, though. When it fell off ,it still moved. Back in "Darkness Rising", when a part of a Terrorcon (zombie) was cut off, it shut down.

While I didn't get the Transformers Animated: The Cool graphic novel, I did read all of it in English. And it was awesome.

And, Animated Black Rodimus is a new character, separate from his good guy counterpart.

Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'

1. It seems that I have to download the entire episode now, and then listen to it. Before, I could just stream the episode. I'd just click the link and the episode would start. I don't think I've changed any settings on my end. Has something changed? I notice that I'm directed to a "podcast file download" page recently.

2. Along with #1, I've had problems downloading the podcast. The downloads just stops, as if complete, at some random point short of the total file size. Has anyone else reported this?

Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'

Motto:"Know that I am Razorclaw, that my reality is not yours, and while I share Tigerhawk's dual Spark and Vok heritage... I am NOT he!"

Weapon: Ion Particle Blaster

Galvatron X wrote:2. Along with #1, I've had problems downloading the podcast. The downloads just stops, as if complete, at some random point short of the total file size. Has anyone else reported this?

I had two different IRL friends have this problem. I haven't. Not sure what's different.

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